School bus authority, ex-manager still disagree over ‘bad faith’ dismissal [Video]

Recent court documents delve further into Ottawa’s English school transportation organization and its former general manager being at loggerheads over her dismissal last year.

Vicky Kyriaco, former general manager of the Ottawa Student Transportation Authority (OSTA), sued the organization for more than $800,000 for allegedly dismissing her in “bad faith” and damaging her health, career and reputation.

Last October, OSTA announced Kyriaco was taking a leave of absence while apologizing for an ongoing shortage of bus drivers resulting in hundreds of cancelled runs for students in Ottawa’s two English school boards.

In December, the same month OSTA said she had “departed her position,” Kyriaco filed a statement of claim against her former employer of about 12 years.

It said the announcement of her leave “left the public with the impression that [she] had been identified as the culprit for the shortages.”